Returning to “Normal”: Strengthening Your Well-being for the Classroom & Clinical Training

Fall 2021 CIPhER programs will only be offered via Zoom.

Co-Sponsored by the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy Well-being and Student Wellness Committees

Returning to “Normal”: Strengthening Your Well-being for the Classroom & Clinical Training

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m., Tuesday, August 24, 2021, via Zoom

The pandemic has been a profoundly difficult time for faculty, staff, and students, and their mental health. Many of us feel an extensive fatigue and also an urgency to continue to press ahead as we begin returning to “normal”. During this time, it’s especially important to invest in one’s personal well-being, acknowledge the many stressors that people face, and feel equipped to recognize excessive stress and anxiety warning signs in ourselves, our colleagues, and our students. This program will provide an overview of the challenges of returning to “normal”, how to recognize excessive stress and anxiety in ourselves and others, and strategies to maintain and improve resiliency.  

Learning Objectives:  At the end of this program, participants will be able to:

1. Discuss concerns related to returning to “normal”
2. Describe signs and symptoms of excessive stress and anxiety
3. Outline strategies for processing feelings of anxiety and stress and adapting to change in healthy ways

Target Audience:  This program is designed for faculty, staff, preceptors, post-graduate trainees, and students.

Registration:  For non-UNC affiliates, registration is $15.00.  (UNC Affiliates are considered to be faculty, staff, trainees, students, preceptors and residents who currently work for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill or support its students.)

REGISTRATION DEADLINE:  Friday, August 20, at 5 p.m.

To Register Click Here

The University Of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. ACPE program 0046-9999-21-203-L04-P provides 1.0 contact hour of continuing pharmacy education credit. To receive CE credit, participants must sign-in upon arrival (in class or online), attend the entire program and complete the evaluation within 60 days of the program date (included in LECE which will open after the workshop). Statements of credit can be viewed and printed in CPE Monitor in approximately 2 to 3 weeks. **No partial credit will be available**

Presenter Information

Samantha Meltzer-Brody, MD, MPH

Assad Meymandi Distinguished Professor & Chair

Director, UNC Center for Women’s Mood Disorders

Department of Psychiatry, UNC School of Medicine

Samantha Meltzer-Brody, MD, MPH is the Assad Meymandi Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  She also directs the UNC Center for Women’s Mood Disorders and is an executive sponsor of the UNC SOM and UNC Health Well-Being initiative.  Dr. Meltzer-Brody is an internationally recognized physician-scientist in perinatal depression. She received the 2020 O Max Gardner award, a UNC System Award (17 universities) for the highest faculty honor and is also the recipient of the 2019 American Psychiatric Association Alexandra Symonds Award in Women’s Mental Health.  She was recently named to the 2021 Forbes list of Women Over 50 Working to Improve Our Collective Mental Health.  Dr. Meltzer-Brody founded the UNC Perinatal Psychiatry Program in 2004 and became Chair of the UNC Department of Psychiatry in October 2019. Her work has focused on developing a comprehensive integrated clinical and research program in Women’s Mood Disorders across the reproductive life cycle.  She investigates the epidemiologic and biological predictors of perinatal depression (PND) including genetic, neurosteroid and other neuroendocrine biomarkers as well as the impact of adverse life events.

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Event FAQ

• A Zoom link will be provided prior to the session via a confirmation Outlook invitation. For CE purposes, you must be registered for the program and we must be able to tie your registration to your Zoom attendance.  If your login to Zoom is different from your name, please send an email to charamut@unc.edu with details.